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Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck will be feature speak-ers
at the 9th Annual Holocaust Forum.
Ninth Annual Holocaust Forum brings understanding
The presentation "Hitlerism and the Holocaust" is an annual forum that first began
under the direction of Dr. Wafter King, social science professor at Northern. The fo-rum
began as a way of enriching students' knowledge about
the Holocaust and its impact on history.
The forum will be complemented by a group of faculty
panelists including Dr. Dayton Cook, professor of German;
Dr. A. Waller Hastings, assistant professor of language,
literature and communications; Mark McGinnis, professor
of art; and the Rev. James Reeves, a chaplain with the
United Ministries in Higher Education at Northern State. Dr.
Bruce Luske, coordinator of the event, will serve as mod-eratorfor
the event. A question and answer session forthe
audience will follow these presentations with an informal
Dr. Bruce Luske reception afterwards.
E•X•T•R•A
Thursday, April 6, 1989, Northern State, Aberdeen, SD
Heck and Waterford discuss atrocities of Holocaust
Over 40 years after the full measure of
the holocaust was revealed to the rest of
the world, it still has an impact on society.
"It stands as the most profound landmark
of human destructiveness on a mass and
organized scale. tt is a model for any other
kind of racial oppression," Bruce Luske,
assistant professor of sociology at North-ern
State.
As Northern State prepares for its Ninth
Annual Holocaust Forum on April 12, the
intent behind the on-going event is to broaden
both student and community perspective.
"We have a student population that is cul-turally
bound. There isn't a great deal of
diversity in the student body and there is a
tendency to think of differences as being
bad."
To highlight the extent that cultural and
racial differences can be used as an ex-cuse
for genocide, the forum is bringing to
campus a former Nazi and a survivor of one
of the concentration camps. Their free public
address is slated for 8 p.m. Wednesday in
the Johnson Fine Arts Center Theatre on
the Northern State campus.
"Each of the speakers shares a com-mitment
to the dead. They were both vic-timized
by the horrors," said Luske, the or-ganizer
of the event.
Alfons Heck joined the Hitler Youth when
he was ten years old and was even a
delegate of the Nuremberg Nazi Party
Congress. At one point, he was Germany's
youngest, top-rated glider
pilots. He attained the rank
of acting Hitler Youth
Bannfuehrer (district leader)
before he was captured by
the American Third Army.
He was sentenced to one
month of hard labor for his
Hitler Youth career. He is
now a free-lance writer spe-cializing
in politics.
Since 1980, he has been
conducting joint lectures with
Helen Waterford, a German-born
Jewish survivor of
Auschwitz on the topic
"Hitlerism and the Holo-caust."
Calling Heck "a pawn of social condition-ing,"
Luske notes that the transformation
from former Nazi is "a wonderful moral
example of human change." Heck has made
the internal journey from being culturally
blinkered to seeing that other people are
his moral equal, he said.
Although originally born in Germany, Mrs.
Waterford had moved to Holland in 1934.
After the German invasion of Holland in
1940, she participated in resistance work
and spent two years living in hiding.
In 1944, she was arrested and deported
to the Auschwitz concentration camp and
later to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia. In
1945, she was liberated by the Russian
Army and emigrate to the United States in
1947. She has lectured extensively on the
Holocaust in colleges and universities through
the country.
"Here you have someone who has been
on the end of a genocidal policy," Luske
said. "She knows that she is fortunate to be
alive and has said that there are no deep in-sights
as to why she survived and so many,
including her own husband, did not. How-ever,
she can also be sympathetic and
compassionate to a man who was fed into
the Nazi machinery."
One of the key points of the lecture is that
both speakers recognize that "They are
not isolated blips on the historical screen.
There are many events today that are
deeply rooted in intolerance."
Luske cites the Apartheid in South Af-rica,
the decimation of the rain forest in
South America and the oil spill in Alaska as
examples of "Western man's arrogance
toward the rest of the planet."
The purpose of the annual forum is to
keep in the public's mind that "racism and
intolerance is evident and should always
be addressed. If we don't remember his-tory,
then we are condemned to repeat it."
The event is sponsored by the Northern
State Campus Activities Board, Northern
State Honors Society, The Holocaust Fo-rum
and South Dakota Committee on the
Humanities. It is free and open to the
public.
Source:Kay Albright,
Northern Informational Services

Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck will be feature speak-ers
at the 9th Annual Holocaust Forum.
Ninth Annual Holocaust Forum brings understanding
The presentation "Hitlerism and the Holocaust" is an annual forum that first began
under the direction of Dr. Wafter King, social science professor at Northern. The fo-rum
began as a way of enriching students' knowledge about
the Holocaust and its impact on history.
The forum will be complemented by a group of faculty
panelists including Dr. Dayton Cook, professor of German;
Dr. A. Waller Hastings, assistant professor of language,
literature and communications; Mark McGinnis, professor
of art; and the Rev. James Reeves, a chaplain with the
United Ministries in Higher Education at Northern State. Dr.
Bruce Luske, coordinator of the event, will serve as mod-eratorfor
the event. A question and answer session forthe
audience will follow these presentations with an informal
Dr. Bruce Luske reception afterwards.
E•X•T•R•A
Thursday, April 6, 1989, Northern State, Aberdeen, SD
Heck and Waterford discuss atrocities of Holocaust
Over 40 years after the full measure of
the holocaust was revealed to the rest of
the world, it still has an impact on society.
"It stands as the most profound landmark
of human destructiveness on a mass and
organized scale. tt is a model for any other
kind of racial oppression," Bruce Luske,
assistant professor of sociology at North-ern
State.
As Northern State prepares for its Ninth
Annual Holocaust Forum on April 12, the
intent behind the on-going event is to broaden
both student and community perspective.
"We have a student population that is cul-turally
bound. There isn't a great deal of
diversity in the student body and there is a
tendency to think of differences as being
bad."
To highlight the extent that cultural and
racial differences can be used as an ex-cuse
for genocide, the forum is bringing to
campus a former Nazi and a survivor of one
of the concentration camps. Their free public
address is slated for 8 p.m. Wednesday in
the Johnson Fine Arts Center Theatre on
the Northern State campus.
"Each of the speakers shares a com-mitment
to the dead. They were both vic-timized
by the horrors," said Luske, the or-ganizer
of the event.
Alfons Heck joined the Hitler Youth when
he was ten years old and was even a
delegate of the Nuremberg Nazi Party
Congress. At one point, he was Germany's
youngest, top-rated glider
pilots. He attained the rank
of acting Hitler Youth
Bannfuehrer (district leader)
before he was captured by
the American Third Army.
He was sentenced to one
month of hard labor for his
Hitler Youth career. He is
now a free-lance writer spe-cializing
in politics.
Since 1980, he has been
conducting joint lectures with
Helen Waterford, a German-born
Jewish survivor of
Auschwitz on the topic
"Hitlerism and the Holo-caust."
Calling Heck "a pawn of social condition-ing,"
Luske notes that the transformation
from former Nazi is "a wonderful moral
example of human change." Heck has made
the internal journey from being culturally
blinkered to seeing that other people are
his moral equal, he said.
Although originally born in Germany, Mrs.
Waterford had moved to Holland in 1934.
After the German invasion of Holland in
1940, she participated in resistance work
and spent two years living in hiding.
In 1944, she was arrested and deported
to the Auschwitz concentration camp and
later to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia. In
1945, she was liberated by the Russian
Army and emigrate to the United States in
1947. She has lectured extensively on the
Holocaust in colleges and universities through
the country.
"Here you have someone who has been
on the end of a genocidal policy," Luske
said. "She knows that she is fortunate to be
alive and has said that there are no deep in-sights
as to why she survived and so many,
including her own husband, did not. How-ever,
she can also be sympathetic and
compassionate to a man who was fed into
the Nazi machinery."
One of the key points of the lecture is that
both speakers recognize that "They are
not isolated blips on the historical screen.
There are many events today that are
deeply rooted in intolerance."
Luske cites the Apartheid in South Af-rica,
the decimation of the rain forest in
South America and the oil spill in Alaska as
examples of "Western man's arrogance
toward the rest of the planet."
The purpose of the annual forum is to
keep in the public's mind that "racism and
intolerance is evident and should always
be addressed. If we don't remember his-tory,
then we are condemned to repeat it."
The event is sponsored by the Northern
State Campus Activities Board, Northern
State Honors Society, The Holocaust Fo-rum
and South Dakota Committee on the
Humanities. It is free and open to the
public.
Source:Kay Albright,
Northern Informational Services